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Monday, October 22nd, 2012

Liveblogging the final presidential debate of 2012 from the great Pacific Northwest

Good after­noon, every­one. Tonight is debate night once again. In a few hours, Barack Oba­ma and Mitt Rom­ney will sit down with Bob Schi­ef­fer of CBS’ Face the Nation for a debate cen­tered on for­eign pol­i­cy at Lynn Uni­ver­si­ty in Boca Raton, Flori­da. If the last debate is any indi­ca­tion, the dis­cus­sion should be lively.

We’ll be shar­ing our obser­va­tions and impres­sions here on The Advo­cate as the debate gets under­way; updates will be also simul­cast on our Twit­ter feed. We invite you to weigh in with your thoughts as well in the com­ments. Before the debate begins, here’s some analy­sis we think is worth reading:

[php]
$url =“https://www.nwprogressive.org/debates/feed/atom/”;

//unique text to deter­mine start goes here
$start = “We will begin”;

//insert end text here
$end = “More obser­va­tions on the way!”;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($ch) or die (“Sor­ry, could­n’t load live debate cov­er­age. Please refresh the page.”);

curl_close ($ch);

$start­po­si­tion = strpos($result,$start);

if($startposition > 0){

$end­po­si­tion = strpos($result,$end, $start­po­si­tion);

//add enough chars to include the tag

$end­po­si­tion += strlen($end);
$length = $endposition-$startposition;
$result = substr($result,$startposition,$length);
echo $result;

}else

echo “Sor­ry, there’s some­thing wrong here! Please refresh the page or try again later.”;
[/php]

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